WP-LESS
Implementation of LESS (Leaner CSS) in order to make themes development easier.
4.6(19 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, WP-LESS is a WordPress styles plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 235K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Downloads are down 13% this week. Top alternative: Simple Custom CSS Plugin.
4.6/519 reviews
10K+active installs
235K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
LESS is a templating language based on top of CSS. It provides numerous enhancements to speed up development and make its maintenance easier.
Theme developers can even bundle the plugin without worrying about conflicts: just include the special bootstrap-for-theme.php and read its instructions.
Features
- Variables
- Mixins (inheritance of rules)
- Nested Rules (write less, do more)
- Accessors (inherit a value from a specific rule)
- Functions (logic operations for dynamic results)
The plugin lets you concentrate on what you need: coding CSS. Everything else is handled automatically, from cache management to user delivery.
Seriously.
Documentation
Advanced topics on how to use the plugin API are available on the Github project documentation.
Requirements
The sole requirement is to use WordPress…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very good
by marcrock·9 years ago
Nice to work with it. Thank you very much!
Well written and maintenance-free
by Makapaka·10 years ago
This plugin is fast and error free.
It allows to easly add Less support to your WP theme.
No needed configuration, just treat your *.less files like regular *.css in your theme’s directory.
Saves time for those Less experts
by alvinkonda·10 years ago
Thank you for this amazing plugin,
it saves us Theme Developers lots of time with this simple implementation directly from the theme. i love the passing of variables as well.
The only thing im not yet figuring it out is the CSS generated from the plugin doent cache, am i missing sth?
Works perfectly
by Marie-Aude·10 years ago
A wonderful tool to get rid of headers bloated with css. Thanks a lot.
Can I output the line number?
by qiujumper·11 years ago
Hi dude,
I love this plugin,but I notice that there is no setting to display the line number of source code in the compiled,it makes it harder for developer to debug the css,I have read the doc in github, still can’t find it, can you help us about this?
Please forgive my poor English,I’m a wp developer from Shanghai,China.
Download Trends
Today: 24Yesterday: 30This week: 164Period total: 17K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.9
74.4%
v1.8
24.3%
Other
1.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Version 1.9.0
- feature: default less compiler is now wikimedia/less.php (#117)
- feature: output is compressed by default
Contributors
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